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The Brave Athlete solves the 13 most common mental conundrums athletes face in their everyday training and in races. You don't have one brain - you have three; your ancient Chimp brain that keeps you alive, your modern Professor brain that navigates the civilized world, and your Computer brain that accesses your memories and runs your habits (good and bad). They fight for control all the time and that's when bad things happen. What if you could stop the thoughts and feelings you don't want? You can.

Addressing both collegiate and professional sports, the updated edition of Fair Play explores the ethical presuppositions of competitive athletics and their connection both to ethical theory and to concrete moral dilemmas that arise in actual athletic competition. A major new section in chapter four examines the ethics of genetically enhancing athletic abilities. Other new material covers the analysis of sports and games according to influential philosopher Bernard Suits; the morality of cheating and the ethics of strategic fouling; and more.

"La mente del deportista" es el manual que le faltaba a tu cerebro: reúne todo lo necesario para desplegar tu verdadero potencial para entrenar y competir. Utilizando una potente combinación de ciencia, experiencia práctica, charla sincera y sabiduría inspirada en el fracaso, Simon Marshall y Lesley Paterson se ponen manos a la obra y, con mucho humor, se implican para solucionar los problemas de los deportistas reales.

What can Roger Federer teach us about the secret of longevity? What do the All Blacks have in common with improvised jazz musicians? What can cognitive neuroscientists tell us about what happens to the brains of sportspeople when they perform? And why did Johan Cruyff believe that beauty was...

Vous êtes au top techniquement, tactiquement et physiquement mais le jour des compétitions, vous n'arrivez pas à tout donner. Vous stagnez dans votre pratique alors que vous savez que vous pouvez aller plus haut. Votre entourage vous voit comme confiant alors qu'au fond de vous, vous sentez qu'il y a une faille et que ce n'est pas comme il le croit. Si bien que vous avez cette peur d'échouer et de décevoir ceux qui croient en vous. Vous aimeriez vous libérer de ce poids afin d'exploiter pleinement et librement votre potentiel.